The chaotic sound of hurried footsteps, the grinding of swords and armor, and the sound of violent wheezing mingled together, and a group of soldiers and horses quickly advanced in the direction of the east gate.

Chen Xian rode a horse and walked in front, the war horse trot, the sound of the horse's hooves was crisp and loud, his body kept rising and falling with the war horse's trot, but his mind was deducing the next scene.

It didn't take long for Chen Xian to come to the East City Gate with his soldiers and horses.

"Who?" One of the officers guarding the gates came up with a sword and shouted.

Chen Xian stopped and raised his hand to signal, and a personal soldier stepped forward and shouted: "We are the Qianwei army, and my general wants to talk to your general guarding the door!" ”

Soon, a general walked down from the castle tower, followed by several soldiers.

"He Song, the general of the Chengdu Army and the guard of the East City Gate, has met General Chen!"

Chen Xian looked at He Song and a few soldiers behind him, and asked, "How many generals do you have?" Call them all over, there is an important military order to be conveyed in the Assassin's Mansion! ”

He Song was puzzled, he saw thousands of soldiers and horses behind Chen Xian, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, "Dare to ask General Chen, where is my General Guo?" If there is a military order in the Assassin's Mansion, it should be conveyed to my general first, and in addition, for such a trivial matter as conveying the military order, how can General Chen come in person! ”

Chen Xian's expression was calm: "Your general is now urgently discussing military affairs with the officials in the Assassin Shi Mansion, and he can't get out!" As for the matter of the order being sent by the general himself, because the content of the military order is related to me! ”

He Song had doubts in his heart, but he didn't see anything wrong, so he had to turn his head and order to the person behind him: "Go and call General Lu and General Gan!" ”

"No!"

After a while, the two generals walked down the city tower together and greeted Chen Xian.

Under the gaze of He Song and Lu Gan, Chen Xian took out a scroll and slowly unfolded it, "Today, I have a secret report, Guo Li, the commander of the Chengdu army, privately sent people out of the city to contact the cadres, intending to rebel and betray the country to seek glory, and immediately dismissed and investigated, the evidence is conclusive, and the sentence is decided!" After investigation, the generals and soldiers of the Chengdu army were deceived by Guo Limeng, and they did not know their intention to collude with the enemy army, communicate with foreign countries, and plot rebellion. ”

After Chen Xian finished reading, regardless of He Song and the others still being shocked and stunned, he took Guo Li's head from the hands of the soldiers next to him and threw it in front of He Song and the others.

Guo Li's head was bloody, rolled on the ground a few times and stopped in front of He Song and others, He Song and others saw that the head was really Guo Li's, and they were so frightened that they took two steps back together, and involuntarily let out an "ah" in their mouths.

Chen Xian shouted and asked: "He Song, now that Guo Li has surrendered to the law, do you want to collude with the cadres like Guo Li, betray the country to seek glory, and be killed by us, or do you want to make meritorious contributions?" Choose now, give you three breaths time to think about it, a ······ 2······ Three"

As soon as the words fell, the two generals of Lu Gan were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and said: "We are willing to wear the guilt and make meritorious service!" ”

He Song's expression was gloomy, and he could only kneel down on one knee helplessly: "He Song is willing to wear the crime and make meritorious service!" ”

Chen Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered: "From now on, you will be under the command of this general, and you will be controlled by this general, and all the military salaries, grain, grass and ordnance will be solved by this general, and you will come!" ”

A few soldiers came up with several large wooden boxes and placed them on the ground, and the boxes were opened one by one, and they were all filled with copper coins.

The defenders of the city gate and the city wall swallowed their saliva one by one, and Chen Xian said loudly: "Now that the enemy is present, all the soldiers should work together to fight against the foreign enemy, and this money is for the soldiers to pay and appreciate, everyone has a share!" General He, you come with me. Huang Yuanjun, from now on, you will be the guard of the East City Gate, and you will be promoted to a general, and you will take half of your men and horses to stay and defend here with the original defenders! ”

"No!" Both agreed at the same time.

With the support of General Huang Yuan, the military salary and rewards were distributed to everyone, these soldiers who were originally Guo Li, although they were not completely controlled by Chen Xian at this time, but they had been stabilized, and these soldiers and generals were also afraid of being captured and accused of rebellion and collusion with the army, even if Guo Li was beheaded, they did not dare to act rashly.

Next, Chen Xian took half of the original defenders away, leaving only half to guard the east gate with the soldiers he sent.

Chen Xian relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, and used the same method to seize the other three city gates, and incorporated the defenders there, for a time, Chen Xian's hands from the original more than 2,600 people, suddenly increased to nearly 5,000 people, accounting for more than two-thirds of the entire Chengdu city defenders.

At this time, Ye Tongzhang had also copied Guo Li's mansion cleanly, a large number of belongings were piled up in the courtyard, and more than a dozen servants were guarded by the soldiers, and they knelt on the ground one by one.

"General, everything of value is here!" One by one, they will come over and give a report.

Ye Tongzhang nodded: "Find someone to count, register the number, and then transport these belongings away!" ”

"No!" The general agreed, and then pointed to the servants kneeling in a row and asked, "General, what should you do with these people?" ”

Ye Tongzhang turned his head to look at these servants, frowned, and waved his hand: "Now that the enemy is present, we don't have so much energy to take care of these prisoners, let's kill them all!" ”

"No!"

The servants kneeling on the ground suddenly wailed one by one, and one of the staff-like people hurriedly shouted: "General, don't kill me!" I have a major secret to report to the general, and it is about Guo Li's collusion with the cadres! ”

Hearing this, Ye Tongzhang raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were about to make a move, and asked, "What do you know?" ”

The staff looked at the soldiers who were holding swords, swallowed their saliva in horror, and hurriedly said: "Guo Li sent a personal soldier out of the city to contact the general of the cadre army, and also brought a letter, the letter was written by the villain, the villain can remember the above content, Guo Li agreed with the cadres in the letter to light the fire at the east city gate tomorrow night, if the torch shakes three times, the city gate is opened, and the cadres can drive straight into the capture of Chengdu City, according to the time, Wu Jinbao, a personal soldier who brought the letter out of the city, should return tonight, and the general sent someone to wait at the east city gate, You can wait until Wu Jinbao! ”

Ye Tongzhang immediately shouted: "Come on, go and report this matter to General Chen!" ”

After the messenger left, Guo Li's staff shouted: "General, spare your life, the villain has already told everything he knows, and the villain can testify in the future to prove Guo Li's crime of colluding with the army, and it is still useful for the general to keep the villain!" ”

Ye Tongzhang thought about it for a while, and instructed the general next to him: "Leave him, send a few people to watch him, don't let him run around!" As for the others, kill them all! ”

"No!"

Chen Xian, who received the report, quickly rushed to the East City Gate and personally directed the operation to capture the returning Wu Jinbao.

Sure enough, at midnight, a dark shadow appeared outside the city gate, and several insect cries were heard up the city tower.

Chen Xian immediately signaled the soldiers to put down the hanging basket, and soon, Wu Jinbao was hung up on the city tower, and when he came out of the hanging basket, several soldiers threw him to the ground and held him down.

"Let go of me, I'm Wu Jinbao, are you all blind?"

Chen Xian walked over and squatted on the ground and said, "Our eyes are very bright, it's you who caught you!" ”

Wu Jinbao struggled and turned his head to look, "You ······"

"This general's name is Chen Xian, your general Guo was beheaded for colluding with the army, communicating with foreign countries, and betraying the country to seek glory, and the Chengdu army has lost its way and has drawn a clear line with Guo Li! Now, what about you? ”

Wu Jinbao was so frightened that his heart was broken, with a frightened expression on his face, he nodded again and again: "The villain is willing to make meritorious contributions, the villain has seen the emperor of Qianguo, what the general wants to know, the villain knows everything and says everything!" ”

Chen Xian had a cold face: "Tell me all the things you have experienced, what you have seen and done since you left the city last night, if the general is satisfied, he will spare your life, if you have half a lie, the general will tell you to die without a place to be buried!" ”

"Yes, yes, I say, I say!" Wu Jinbao agreed, and immediately carefully explained what happened in this day.

After listening quietly, Chen Xian got up and thought for a while, and shouted: "Come on, go and invite General Ye!" Send an order to go down, strengthen the vigilance and patrol in the city, and search all the houses in the city, including the cellar, so that the general can't fly out of a single fly, and not a single mosquito can fly in! ”

"No!"

That night, the defenders carried out a carpet check in the city, and all the soldiers in the army were counted and identified.

An hour later, Chen Xian got what he wanted.

Outside the city, at dawn, Lin Jinghui received news from inside the city.

After dawn, he came to Zhao Junsheng's camp.

"There's news from the city?"

Lin Jinghui said: "Yes, Your Majesty! At present, the officials and generals in the city are arguing endlessly over whether to hold on or surrender, among which Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang advocate holding on, and the attitude of other civil officials is unclear, but they should all have the intention of surrendering, and Guo Li is the same! ”

Zhao Junsheng felt a little relieved.

Subsequently, Zhao Junsheng called Nie Feihu and asked, "How are you preparing?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, 1,000 infantry and 2,000 co-entourage troops have been prepared, just wait for tonight!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Very good!" Your 3,000 men are just pioneers, as long as you are sure that Guo Li is sincere and cooperate with you to capture Chengdu City, you will send someone to send a signal, and I will send troops to reinforce you! ”

"No!"

Soon, Su Ji asked to see him, and Zhao Junsheng announced that he would come in.

"Your Majesty, the minister has already made a strategy for attacking the counties and counties of Shudi, please take a look at it!" After Su Ji finished speaking, he handed over a piece of music.

Zhao Junsheng took the chapter and looked at it, looked up halfway through it and asked: "Prima facie, this strategy is okay, I want to ask, if our army is attacking a city, the neighboring Song army comes to reinforce it, how do you deal with it?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has prepared three thousand-man cavalry teams as a mobile force, ready to reinforce at any time, deployed here and here in two key positions, and can arrive quickly!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at the map in the direction of Su Ji's finger, and couldn't help nodding: "Okay, just do it!" ”